St. Elizabeths Men's Shelter
Update
06/18/21
Washington DC Men's Shelter Tops Out
The new Department of General Services (DGS) and DC Department of Human Services (DHS) construction project, St. Elizabeths East Campus Shelter, located at 2700 Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue SE, Washington, DC, celebrated a topping out milestone this week. This building will replace the existing 801 East Men’s Shelter in the Ward 8 Anacostia community.
The Design-Build team of Coakley & Williams Construction, in a joint-venture with Blue Skye Construction, with architects, Wiencek Associates Architects + Planners, carefully designed the new shelter to ensure that the St. Elizabeths East Campus Historic foundations would not be undermined. The Historic St. Elizabeths Hospital East Campus location is most known for treating soldiers during the Civil War, at one point even taking care of animals due to a not yet built National Zoo. Now, the new shelter is adjacent to the circa 1884 dry barn, the last remaining dry barn in the District of Columbia, as well as the craftsman style hospital stable which originally contained stalls for 65 horses and mules in 1901.
